Interview

Lifting the Odds for a Market Melt-Up

Four mornings a week, clients and members of the press receive The Yardeni Research Morning Briefing, an e-mail filled with well-reasoned views about the economy and financial markets that are refreshingly devoid of attitude and as solid as Ed Yardeni himself. One recent piece of counsel—that the bull market would not be derailed—paid off in spades for anyone who listened.

Yardeni, 63 years old, has been dispensing advice for more than 30 years, as an analyst at the Federal Reserve, chief economist at E.F. Hutton and...